Authorities have identified a second survivor of the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, who has committed suicide this month. Sixteen-year-old Calvin Desir took his own life on Saturday, just days after 19-year-old Sydney Aiello had killed herself. Seventeen students, staff and teachers were killed in Parkland on Valentine’s Day last year, in one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.
Sydney Aiello had suffered from PTSD and survivor’s guilt after the shooting that that took the life of close friend Meadow Pollack. It’s unclear if Calvin, who was a sophomore at the school, suffered from survivor’s guilt as Aiello’s family have confirmed. School district officials, community leaders, law enforcement and concerned parents met on Sunday to discuss how to address the trauma and identify possible warning signs. A mental health and suicide prevention town hall meeting was scheduled for Wednesday, March 27 at 6 pm, at the Coral Spring City Hall. A spokesperson for the city hall said “We simply cannot let the events of that day take the lives of any more of our children. As a city, we are committed to shining a light on those who suffer in the darkness. The mental health of our children and all those who have been affected by the MSD tragedy must be made a priority.”
The meeting hosted a panel of experts who answered questions from those wanting to help children cope with trauma. Experts offered advice on how parents can connect with teenagers who isolate themselves, discussed alternative methods of therapy and whether adults can safely talk with children about suicide. Jackie Rosen, executive director of the Florida Initiative for Suicide Prevention, said parents should feel confident to talk about mental health with their children and begin those conversations “as soon as possible.” Experts also encouraged promoting mental health for teachers. “To the teachers in the room, the first thing I’m going to ask you to do is to take care of you, take care of yourself and make sure that you are as strong and as nurturing as you can be for yourself,” said Patrice Rotolo, clinical director for Smith Community Mental Health. “Take care of your own needs because that’s the best way to meet the needs of your students.”
As news of the Parkland suicides circulated, it was confirmed that the father of a 6-year-old girl who was killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was found dead by apparent suicide on Monday. Jeremy Richman, a neuroscientist who, after the death of his daughter Avielle, devoted his life to finding solutions to brain abnormalities that lead to violence. He founded the Avielle Foundation to support brain science research, with the ultimate goal of preventing violence and building compassion.
Six year old Avielle Richman, who was the only child of Richman and his wife, Jennifer Hensel, was among the 26 people killed in the Dec. 2012 shooting at Newtown’s Sandy Hook Elementary. The couple had two more children after Avielle’s death. Hensel wrote in a statement this week, “To parent our children without my champion shatters my heart and I will love my best friend forever. … Side by side since 1991, Jeremy and I walked a path of deep friendship, marriage, and parenthood. “He succumbed to the grief that he could not escape,” she wrote.
Tragically, these recent deaths speak to how critical it is to shatter the stigma of mental health issues and for people suffering or affected by it to seek help for themselves, loved ones and anyone who we suspect may be in need. If you are in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741-741.
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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, March 31st, 2019.
In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, March 31st, 2019 was:
SEAN STOVER
In PENNSYLVANIA
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
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The trivia drawing entries 3/25/19 thru 3/31/19 are:
3/25/19
Samantha Brwn
Hunter Coffey
Jenifer Garza
Cheryl Hall
Be Schwerin
Phylicia Phillips
Nicole Blaha
Kathleen Marks
Melissa Mae
Summer July
Jennifer Ramlet
Brooke Scott
Rhonda Grisham
Audessa Vaught
Brandi K Chaney
Stephanie Beckwith
Toi Minnifield
Jo Bagavathula Bevara
Sheila Carvell
Amanda Sue
Katherine Oliveira
Amanda Otis
Stephanie Marie Walls
3/26/19
Nacole Patrick
Trish Musgrave
Michelle Webb
Derek Michelle Polk
Michelle Bartley
Traci Anderson
Bea Patrick
Emily Rice Bowersock
Cheryl Hall
Jenifer Garza
Sarah Harrison
Lisa Puckett
Debbie Bloxom
Audessa Vaught
Tina Mimick
April Ashcraft
Jill Nauyokas
Tabitha Sinks
Dale Fish
Pamela Gonzalez
Kristina Rosson
Misty Shallcross
3/27/19
Christy Hawkes
Nacole Patrick
Karyn Koehler
Brittany Light
Kim Avery
Amber Chandler
Jenifer Garza
Kimberly Necolie
Andrea Ayala
Christy Marie
Bea Patrick
Annette French
Wilma Mast
Lori Capobianco
Nicole Blaha
Jenn Smith Jackson
Taschia Miller
Katherine Oliveira
Jo Bagavathula Bevara
Tracy Heyer
Jill Nagel
Eva Biggs
Sheila Carvell
3/28/19
Bea Patrick
Traci Anderson
Brittany Light
Beth Epley Minton
Derek Michelle Polk
Kara Kilhoffer
Nacole Patrick
Michelle Webb
Sean Stover
Maria Bouchard
Phylicia Phillips
Annette French
Jennifer Saavedra
Jenifer Garza
Amie-Lee George
Lori Sexton Leal
Alicia Johnson
Kacie Rogers
Karen Brunet Moore
Jennifer Lee Nalley
Karyn Koehler
3/29/19
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Christy Hawkes
Sheila Carvell
Dave Miller
Vickie Gipson
Beth Cleveland
Dale Fish
Eleazar Ruiz
Shona Ort
Wilma Mast
Tonya Velazquez
Joanna Hacker
Tiffany Borek
Jessica Steiner
Jennifer Ramlet
Carrie Vucinaj
Tabitha Sinks
Rhonda Grisham
Amanda Otis
Steph Mitchell
Lisa Puckett
Kathi Taylor
Ashley Agner
Sarah Harrison
3/30/19
Trish Musgrave
Jill Nauyokas
Amanda Sue
Marilyn Wall
Andrea Ayala
Kristina Rosson
Melissa Mae
Amber Chandler
Lori Sexton Leal
Tabitha Sinks
Amber Chandler
April Ashcraft
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Althea Thomas
Jane Peterson
Cyndi Jansheski
Carrie Vucinaj
Abby Noelle
Sherry Barnes
Thomas Ryan Gan
3/31/19
Martha Prescott
Alicia Dansby
Jenifer Garza
Amy Chavis
April Ashcraft
Amber Chandler
Kim Avery
Christy Hawkes
Tina Auth
Tracy Heyer
Kellina Fernell Murphy
Brittany Doerfler
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Paula M Bondy
Nancy Scharnhorst
Beth Cleveland
Nicole Flynn
Stephanie Marie Walls
Karen Brunet Moore
Poonam Gosain
Andrew W Sauer
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The Ethiopian transport minister has announced that early investigations have revealed clear similarities between the crashes of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and October’s Lion Air Flight 610 in Indonesia. The Transportation Department has launched investigations into regulators’ approvals of the Boeing 737 MAX 8, as well as into the development of the aircraft. Just after take-off, both flights, which killed all crew and passengers on board, experienced unpredictable climbs and descents before crashing. Both pilots immediately recognized a problem and tried to return to the airport.
The United States and many other countries have grounded the Max 8s and larger Max 9s as Boeing faces the challenge of proving the jets are safe to fly amid suspicions that faulty sensors and software contributed to the two crashes in less than five months. Both Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 lacked an optional safety feature that could have saved the lives of 346 people. The safety feature, called an “angle of attack indicator” and an “angle of attack disagree light”—are indicators that Boeing offers only at an additional cost. Another similarity believed to have played a role in both crashes is that the planes’ automated “anti-stall” systems inadvertently pushed both planes’ noses downward.
Pilot training requirements on this software came under scrutiny in the days after the March 10th crash with reports that the pilot and co-pilot had never received updated training on a Boeing 737 Max 8 simulator, even though the airline had the technology available since January. A cockpit recording indicates that the pilots of the doomed Flight 302 were referencing safety manuals but were unable to fix the problem before they crashed. Officials are probing why pilot manuals did not address the feature. Reports are now emerging that the Lion Air flight almost went down the day before the deadly accident, but an off-duty pilot riding in the cockpit knew how to disable a malfunctioning flight control system, which was likely pushing the nose of the plane down.
U.S.-based manufacturer Boeing, which is now under heightened scrutiny around the world, has said previously pilots who have flown earlier models didn’t need additional training. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao ordered an audit of the training and certification process for Boeing’s 737 MAX 8 aircraft. U.S. prosecutors are also looking into the development of Boeing’s 737 Max jets and a Justice Department probe will examine the way Boeing was regulated by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Boeing has said it has “full confidence” in the planes’ safety. Engineers are making changes to the system designed to prevent an aerodynamic stall if sensors detect that the jet’s nose is pointed too high and its speed is too slow. American Airlines pilot and spokesman for their union, Dennis Tajer said that airline officials told the unions that Boeing intends to offer pilots about a 15-minute iPad course to train them on the new flight-control software on Max jets that is suspected of playing a role in the crashes. He called that amount of training unacceptable. “Our sense is it’s a rush to comply — ‘let’s go, let’s go, let’s go,'” Tajer said. “I’m in a rush to protect my passengers.”
These disturbing updates come as families of victims of last October’s Lion Air crash say they were pressured by the airline to sign a pledge not to pursue legal action against the company, in exchange for about $90,000 in compensation which was the minimum amount the families were entitled to under Indonesian law.
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On the day Nicholas Cruz opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School he killed 17 classmates and teachers and wounded 17 others. Many students escaped with their lives but have emotional wounds that they’ll carry with them for the rest of their lives. For Sydney Aiello, 19, the grief of losing her classmates and teachers, including close friend Meadow Pollack, weighed heavily on her. A little over a year after the shooting took place, she took her own life on March 17th. Heather Galvez of the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office said Aiello died from a gunshot wound to the head. Aiello’s funeral was held Friday and she was buried at Temple Beth El Memorial Gardens in Davie, Fla. She is survived by her parents, Cara and Joseph, and older brother Nick.
Aiello was a senior and on the high-school campus the day of the mass shooting but was not in the freshman building where the shooting occurred. Many said she was never the same after the February 14th shooting claimed the lives of her classmates. After graduating, she enrolled at Florida Atlantic University but her mother, Cara Aiello said she struggled to attend class because she was afraid to be back in a classroom. She said her daughter was consumed with survivor’s guilt and recently diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder from the massacre. She said Sydney couldn’t shake the devastating trauma of the mass shooting last year and the death of her longtime friend, Meadow Pollack. She seemed sad in recent days, her mom said, but never asked for help before taking her own life. Cara Aiello said that she hopes Sydney’s story can help save others who are struggling with their mental health in the aftermath of the shooting.
The horrific circumstances of Meadow Pollack’s death show the unrelenting savagery of shooter Nicolas Cruz that day and would understandably haunt anyone who loved her. Meadow was shot 4 times in the hallway on the third floor. She crawled down the hallway to another student, Cara Loughran and covered her to shield her from the bullets. Cruz pointed his assault rifle at Meadow’s back and shot her four more times. The bullets pierced through Meadow and into Cara beneath her, killing both students. Cruz then shot Meadow once in the head.
Pollack’s father, Andrew Pollack, who has become an outspoken activist for more security at schools across the country since his daughter death, retweeted a photo of Sydney Aiello and his daughter posing together in fancy gowns with the heartbreaking caption, “A little more than a year after this photo was taken, both are gone.” Pollack said his heart goes out to her “poor, poor parents. It’s terrible what happened. Meadow and Sydney were friends for a long, long time,” he said. “Killing yourself is not the answer.” Pollack added “If anyone feels like that they have no one that can understand their pain, if there’s any student out there that’s having a hard time, please reach out to me on Twitter. I understand you. You aren’t alone.”
Meadow Pollack’s brother, Hunter, also weighed in on Aiello’s death on Twitter. “Beautiful Sydney with such a bright future was taken from us way too soon,” he wrote. Ryan Petty, who also lost his daughter Alaina in the Parkland shooting, stressed the importance of suicide prevention for Stoneman Douglas students. “It breaks my heart that we’ve lost yet another student from Stoneman Douglas. My advice to parents is to ask questions, don’t wait.”
Cruz, 20, has pled not guilty and his lawyers have said he’ll plead guilty in return for life in prison but prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. His trial is tentatively scheduled for next year.
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A San Francisco jury found that Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide was a “substantial factor” in the cancer of California resident Edwin Hardeman. Hardeman says he sprayed the widely used herbicide on his property for almost three decades and once got the product directly on his skin. He has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The jury will now consider damages owed by Bayer, which owns Monsanto. The federal case could have implications for thousands of others accusing the company of making them sick.
More than 11,000 people have filed suit against Monsanto Company (now Bayer) alleging that exposure to Roundup herbicide caused them or their loved ones to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma, alledging that Monsanto covered up the risks. As part of the discovery process, Monsanto has had to turn over millions of pages of its internal records. More than 760 lawsuits are pending in U.S. District Court in San Francisco and the cases have been combined for handling as multidistrict litigation (MDL) under Judge Vince Chhabria.
The jury came to this verdict despite the judge barring evidence about Monsanto’s efforts to discredit the International Agency for Research on Cancer, after it classified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen in 2015. Monsanto spent millions of dollars on various secretive tactics aimed at discrediting IARC. Documents show the company discussing using third parties who appeared to be independent of Monsanto to publicly criticize IARC and push Monsanto propaganda points. Internal Monsanto records show the company’s role in ghostwriting an article that appeared on Forbes’ contributors’ platform, and they show that the company was behind a story published by Reuters in 2017 that falsely claimed an IARC scientist withheld information from IARC that would have changed the classification.
The judge also barred evidence about how Monsanto worked to discredit French scientist Gilles-Éric Séralini after publication of his 2012 study findings about rats fed water dosed with Roundup. Internal Monsanto records show a coordinated effort to get the Seralini paper retracted, including an email string between Monsanto employees who apparently were so proud of what they called a “multimedia event that was designed for maximum negative publicity” against Seralini that they designated it as an “achievement” worth recognition.
The judge did allow portions of a 2015 internal Monsanto email to be introduced as evidence. In the email, company scientist Bill Heydens discusses plans to ghostwrite a series of new scientific papers that will contradict IARC’s classification of glyphosate. In the email, Heydens remarks on how this plan is similar to the ghostwriting of a scientific paper written and published in 2000 in response to another study that found glyphosate to be unsafe.
Officials with Monsanto owner Bayer AG are feeling the effects of the decision has the company’s share prices dropped even lower. The company’s shares already took a huge hit in August after the jury in the first Roundup cancer trial found that the company’s herbicides caused cancer. In August 2018, a state jury awarded former school groundskeeper DeWayne “Lee” Johnson nearly $300 million in damages after Monsanto’s Roundup was found to be responsible for his cancer, though the amount was later reduced to $78 million. Of course, Monsanto appealed the verdict and Johnson has cross appealed, seeking to reinstate the jury award.
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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, March 24th, 2019.
In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, March 24th, 2019 was:
KRISTINA ROSSON
Lawrenceburg, TN
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook fan and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
The trivia drawing entries 3/18/19 thru 3/24/19 are:
3/18/19
Misty Shallcross
Nikki Hunsaker
Hayley Cordaro
Tera Wardrip
Marcy Coull
Priscilla Shimp
Kristina Rosson
Jeanne Marie Rousseau
Brandy Marie
Christy Marie
Mya Murphy
Mary Ellen Laferriere
Vickie Gipson
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Krystal Larsen
Mary Achio
Kim Avery
Rosanne Clark
Trish Musgrave
Michelle Cervantes
3/19/19
Amber Chandler
Sherry Lilly
Be Schwerin
Jennifer Vega
Jessica Steiner
Shannon Rush
Nacole Patrick
April Ashcraft
Johanna Landsaw-Davis
Trish Musgrave
Dave Miller
Karen Brunet Moore
Karen Bondehagen
Taschia Miller
Christy George
Bea Patrick
Brittany Doerfler
Katherine Oliveira
Debbie Gremlin
Trish Hysell
Lenis Abshire
3/20/19
Stephanie Beckwith
April Ashcraft
Angela Janisse
Be Schwerin
Eric Sanders
Jill Nauyokas
Eleazar Ruiz
Kimberly Snyder
Amanda Sue
Ashley Agner
Stacy Nelson
Tonya Velazquez
Derelys Peterson
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Samantha Smith
Becky VanGinkel
Phylicia Phillips
Barbara Austin
Alyssa DiFazio
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Kassie Lynn DiFazio
3/21/19
Adaria Johnson
Tonya Velazquez
Jennifer Ramlet
Jennifer Lang
Jessica Davis
Kristina Rosson
Taschia Miller
Edward John
Brittany Doerfler
Ambreen Rouf
Trish Musgrave
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Trish Hysell
Jade Good
Melissa Mae
Amanda Sue
Cheryl Hall
Lisa David Carr
Samantha Smith
3/22/19
Dean Bruss
Brooke Scott
Lisa A Mazola
Brandy Marie
Lisa Puckett
Beth Cleveland
Lisa David Carr
Priscilla Shimp
Andrea Ayala
Alyssa DiFazio
Jeremy Mclaughlin
Jillian Dollarhide
Nikki Hunsaker
Kari Wagoner
Jenifer Garza
Christina Radcliff
Kim Avery
Brittany Doerfler
Mary Pettiford
Patricia Goodman
Debbie Smith
Karen Brunet Moore
3/23/19
Jo Bagavathula Bevara
Brittany Doerfler
Misty Shallcross
Samantha Brwn
Natasha Berry
Be Schwerin
Martha Prescott
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Nicole Blaha
Christy Hawkes
Lisa A Mazola
Beth Cleveland
Jill Nauyokas
Tracy Heyer
April Ashcraft
Marcy Coull
Amber McGrath
Audessa Vaught
Derelys Peterson
Alison Giffune Paige
Laurel Klem
Andrea Ayala
Priscilla Shimp
3/24/19
Be Schwerin
Alysia Jackson
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Debbie Bloxom
Rhonda Grisham
Brooke Scott
Amber Chandler
Brandy Marie
Jenifer Garza
Karen Brunet Moore
Amy Chavis
Diane Hamric
April Ashcraft
Rose Elizabeth Cantu
Tonya Velazquez
Nicole Blaha
Amanda Sue
Eric Johnson
Kathleen Hickman
Jo Bagavathula Bevara
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Hollywood actresses and a slew of chief executives are among 50 wealthy people charged in the largest college cheating scam ever prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice. Those indicted in the investigation, dubbed “Operation Varsity Blues,” allegedly paid bribes of up to $6.5 million to get their children into elite colleges, including Yale, Stanford, Georgetown and the University of Southern California, federal prosecutors said.
At a news conference, Andrew Lelling, the U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts said “This case is about the widening corruption of elite college admissions through the steady application of wealth combined with fraud. There can be no separate college admissions system for the wealthy and, I’ll add, there will not be a separate criminal justice system either.” Lelling said “The parents charged in the case are a catalog of wealth and privilege. They include, for example, the CEOs of private and public companies, successful securities and real estate investors, two well-known actresses, a famous fashion designer and the co-chairman of a global law firm.”
The ringleader of the scam is William Singer, owner of a college counseling service called Key Worldwide Foundation and a company called Edge College & Career Network. Singer allegedly accepted bribes totaling $25 million from parents between 2011 and 2018 “to guarantee their children’s admission to elite schools.” Singer, of Newport Beach, California, pleaded guilty in a Boston federal court on charges of racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice.
Steven Masera, 69, the accountant and financial officer for the Edge College & Career Network and the Key Worldwide Foundation, was also indicted. Mark Riddell, a private school counselor in Bradenton, Florida, and Masera allegedly worked closely with Singer in the scam, according to the indictment. According to the indictment, Mikaela Sanford, 32, of Folsom, California, another employee of the Edge College & Career Network and the Key Worldwide Foundation, and David Sidoo, 59, of Vancouver, Canada, were also indicted for allegedly working closely with Singer to facilitate the scam.
Singer would allegedly instruct parents to seek extended time for the children to take entrance exams or obtain medical documentation that their child had a learning disability, according to the indictment. The parents were then told to get the location of the test changed to one of two testing centers, one in Houston and another in West Hollywood, California, where test administrators Niki Williams, 44, of Houston and Igor Dvorskiy, 52, of Sherman Oaks, California, helped carry out the scam, the indictment alleges. Riddell, 36, allegedly took ACT and SAT tests for students whose parents had paid bribes to Singer. Singer typically paid Riddell $10,000 for each student’s test.
Singer also allegedly bribed school coaches to give to his clients’ admissions slots reserved for student athletes in sports including crew and soccer. He went as far as to stage fake photos of his student clients engaging in sports they never played, or to digitally place the faces of his clients onto images found online of athletes.
Others charged in the probe include nine coaches at elite schools, two SAT and ACT exam administrators, one exam proctor, a college administrator and 33 parents, including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin. Robert Zangrillo, 52, of Miami, founder and CEO of the private investment firm Dragon Global; Bill McGlashan, 55, of Mill Valley, California, a businessman and international private equity investor; Gordon Caplan, a New York attorney; and Gregory Abbott, 68, founder and chairman of International Dispensing Corp., a New York food and beverage packaging company, and his wife, Marcia Abbott, 59.
Huffman’s husband, actor William H. Macy, was not indicted, but according to the court document he and Huffman were caught on a recorded conversation with a corroborating witness in the case, allegedly discussing a $15,000 payment to ensure their younger daughter scored high on a college entrance exam. Actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli allegedly paid $500,000 to USC to have their two daughters falsely designated as crew recruits, though neither daughter ever participated in the sport.
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At least 49 people were killed and 48 seriously injured in mass shootings at two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch on March 15, 2019. The attack occurred around lunchtime when the mosques were full of worshipers. Footage of the massacre was streamed live online, and a rambling 87 page manifesto laced with white supremacist references was published just before the shootings unfolded. Police also neutralized two improvised explosive devices attached to one vehicle near the mosque.
The suspected shooter, Brenton Tarrant, 28, live-streamed 17 minutes of video which included footage of himself inside the first mosque, going room-to-room, victim to victim, shooting the wounded from close range as they struggled to crawl away. In the 6 minutes Tarrant was inside, forty-one people were killed at the Al Noor Mosque. The live streamed footage also showed the gunman casually talking and laughing as he walked out of the mosque where he shot at people near the area before driving away at high speed, heading for the Linwood Islamic Centre, about 3 miles away. Another 7 people were killed at the Linwood Mosque, an eighth victim later died in the hospital. Tarrant was apprehended as he fled the Linwood Mosque when two police officers ran his car off the road.
Tarrant has been charged with murder and two other men remain in custody, although their link to the attack is unknown. None of the men in custody have a criminal history. Tarrant is an Australian-born former personal trainer who is believed to have been radicalized during his travels abroad. According to the Independent, Tarrant met with right-wing extremists while taking a trip to Europe in 2017, and also traveled to Pakistan and North Korea. Authorities have said that Tarrant had become obsessed with terrorist attacks committed by radical Islamists in Europe in 2016 and 2017.
According to his manifesto, he started planning a revenge attack about two years prior to the attack and chose his targets three months in advance. The manifesto expresses several anti-immigrant sentiments including hate speech against migrants, white supremacist rhetoric, and calls for non-European immigrants such as Roma, Indians, Turkish people, Semitic people and others allegedly “invading his land” to be removed. Tarrant describes himself as an ethno-nationalist and refers to revenge for European civilians who were casualties in Islamic terrorist attacks within Europe as motivation for his attack. He repeatedly mentions revenge for Ebba Åkerlund, a victim in the 2017 Stockholm truck attack.
Prime Minister Ardern called the incident an “act of extreme and unprecedented violence” and said “this is one of New Zealand’s darkest days.” She also described it as a well-planned terrorist attack. Christchurch mayor Lianne Dalziel stated that she never thought “anything like this” could happen in New Zealand, saying “everyone is shocked”. Many other politicians and world leaders have condemned the attacks and world leaders attribute the attack to rising Islamophobia.
Prime Minister Ardern announced: “Our gun laws will change, now is the time… People will be seeking change, and I am committed to that.” Attorney-General David Parker was later quoted as saying that the government will ban semi-automatic guns but later said the government had not yet committed to anything and that regulations around semi-automatic weapons was “one of the issues” the government would consider.
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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, March 17th, 2019.
In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, March 17th, 2019 was:
JOSEPHINE CASEY
Augusta GA
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEx Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook fan and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
The trivia drawing entries for 3/11/19 thru 3/17/19 are:
3/11/19
Jean Simmons Homfeld
Pallavi Deshmukh
Amanda Otis
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Christy Hawkes
Nikki Hunsaker
Misty Shallcross
Jenifer Garza
Karyn Koehler
Nicole Blaha
Tina Mimick
Jane Peterson
Stacy Nelson
Mary Achio
Kathleen Marks
Charlotte Dennis
Trish Musgrave
Jennifer Vega
Jessica Steiner
Amie-Lee George
Jennifer Lang
Alison Giffune Paige
3/12/19
Brandy Marie
Jenifer Garza
Carol Jean
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Shannon Schleif
Kathleen Marks
Thomas Ryan Gan
Stevie Rosson
Nicole Blaha
Jill Nauyokas
Amber Chandler
April Ashcraft
Alicia Dansby
Edward John
Dawn Raasch
Beth Cleveland
Traci Anderson
Jennifer Ramlet
Karen Brunet Moore
3/13/19
Derelys Peterson
Susan Clarke Jette
Melissa White
Taschia Miller
Kathleen Marks
Carrie Vucinaj
Jenifer Garza
Crystal Young
Lisa Bloomberg Wahl
Summer July
Misty Shallcross
Jill Nauyokas
April Ashcraft
Brandi K Chaney
Alexis Maureen
Sheila Carvell
Amber McGrath
Cheryl Hall
Karen Brunet Moore
Beth Kumjian
Stephanie Marie Walls
3/14/19
Nikki Hunsaker
Beth Epley Minton
Derek Jennings
Brooke Scott
Jenifer Garza
Kathleen Hickman
Nyeasia Pippin
Jill Nauyokas
Kelsey Polacek
Kendra Lynne Ramsey
Brandi K Chaney
Kimberly Snyder
Nicole Blaha
Brittany Seiler
Susan Clarke Jette
Nikki Bankert
Karyn Koehler
Kayla Clemons
Tessa Davis
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Stephanie Marie Walls
Tonya Velazquez
Kelsey Brooke Vinson
Katrina Worford
3/15/19
Shannon Rush
Brittany Doerfler
Josephine Casey
Vickie Gipson
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Barbara Austin
Nicole Blaha
Jenifer Garza
Kayla Clemons
Alyssa DiFazio
Karen Bondehagen
Marie Beauregard
Mary Pettiford
Kim Minton
Alicia Johnson
Sheila Carvell
Trish Musgrave
Amanda Otis
Phylicia Phillips
Rosanne Clark
Dawn Raasch
Dean Bruss
Kassie Lynn DiFazio
Cassandra Berholtz
3/16/19
Kristina Rosson
Be Schwerin
Kelsey Molnar
Susanne Clark
Jenifer Garza
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Rosanne Clark
Tracy Heyer
Jane Peterson
Paula Johnson
Carrie Vucinaj
Jeremy Mclaughlin
Shannon Rush
Andrew W Sauer
Josephine Casey
Becky Holland
Nicole Blaha
Shannon Schleif
Priscilla Shimp
Donna Porter
Dawn Raasch
Abby Noelle
Lori Sexton Leal
Diane Hamric
3/17/19
Tonya Velazquez
Darlene Whyte
Dawn Raasch
Kim Avery
Donna Porter
Be Schwerin
Diane Hamric
Derek Michelle Polk
Marcy Coull
Jane Peterson
Kelsey Polacek
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Trish Marks
Carl Buddy Mizell
Brandi K Chaney
Alyssa DiFazio
Katrina Worford
Eric Sander
Diane Catley
Karen Brunet Moore
Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!
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An Ethiopian Airlines flight traveling from the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to Nairobi, Kenya, crashed, killing all 157 passengers and crew on board. The Boeing 737 Max 8 jetliner was carrying passengers of 35 different nationalities, including eight Americans and 21 United Nations staffers. Sunday’s crash triggered a global grounding of Boeing 737 Max 8 jets after data suggested similarities between the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash and the Indonesian Lion Air Flight 610 crash in October that killed 189 people.
The pilot of the Boeing 737 jetliner that crashed Sunday immediately noticed trouble as the plane accelerated wildly after takeoff. Within one minute of Flight 302’s departure, Captain Yared Getachew calmly reported a “flight control” problem. “Break break, request back to home,” the captain told air traffic controllers as they scrambled to divert two other flights approaching the airport. “Request vector for landing.”
Air traffic controllers knew the plane was in trouble even before the pilot radioed in that he wanted to turn the plane around. They noticed the plane’s speed accelerated inexplicably and it oscillated up and down by hundreds of feet. Radar showed the aircraft’s altitude was well below what is known as the minimum safe height from the ground during a climb. The plane appeared to stabilize and climbed to a higher altitude, but then began to speed up again in a way that is deemed unsafe. The plane then sped up even more just before it disappeared from radar screens and crashed six minutes after takeoff.
The ill-fated flight crashed near the town of Bishoftu, about 39 miles southeast of Bole International Airport. The plane’s crash left a large crater and debris from the Boeing 737 jet was broken into hundreds of small pieces, making the task of recovering each part complex. The largest engine piece on the site was around the size of a small table. Several dozen forensic investigators and Ethiopian Airlines employees slowly combed the crash site in search of any evidence, raising their hands when they come across anything significant.
The flight data and cockpit voice recorders were sent to Paris where French aviation authorities will probe the heavily damaged black boxes for clues to the tragedy. Preliminary conclusions will take several days and aircraft accident investigations can often take years to complete. Senior Transportation Correspondent David Kerley said investigators will look into the MAX 8’s autopilot functions and the training of the pilots who flew the plane, as well as a mechanical part of the control system that alters the up-and-down movement of the plane’s nose. The mechanism, called a “jackscrew,” is a threaded rod in the tail section of the aircraft that affects the plane’s stability.
Data from the “black boxes,” devices will provide further guidance for investigators as well as some answers for the families of the victims. The National Transportation Safety Board, an independent U.S. agency that investigates transportation accidents and issues widely-respected safety recommendations, also sent three additional investigators to assist in the analysis.
Many speculate whether the software in the plane’s autopilot system might have played a role in the Ethiopian Airlines crash, as it seemed to have done in the fatal crash of an Indonesian Lion Air 737 MAX 8. In the October 2018 Lion Air crash, it appears the pilots failed to disengage the autopilot when the plane’s nose began pitching up and down. It’s possible they were unaware of how to do so since some pilots have complained that the information to disengage autopilot was not readily available, and others have raised concerns about the adequacy of the training process.
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